St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11
STRANGELY MIXED UP.
Mrsx McKenna Is Taken by Mis-
take to Her Husbands FroIic,

Mrsx McKenna lis Taken by Mis-
take to Her Husbands FrOlic.s
The McKenna divorce suit, which is
down for trial On the September docket
of one of the common pleas courts at
Philadelphia, promises some spicy de-
velopments. Mrs. Julia McKenna, who
was Miss Arlington before her mar
rage, the daughter of ex-State Senator
Arlington, is the libellant in the case,
and she charges her husband, Philip G..
McKenna, with infdelity, making Ger
tain well-knoWn Philadelphia milliner,
1t is understood, the correspondent.
According to her story, she was last
summer stopping at the West End hotel,
Long Branch. One afternoon in Au-
gust she received a telegram telling her
of her fathers serious illness and bid
ding her come to town at once. She
Immediately telegraphed to a livery
stable man named Peters to have a car
rage waiting for her at the Broad street
station when she should arrive to take
her to her fathers house, at Seven
teenth and Mount Vernon streets.
She took the next train for Philadel-
phia. Arriving here she fastened down
to the street, and, recognizing one of
Peters drivers, she, without stopping
rage. She had telegraphed the address,
and she did not therefore think it
strange that he did not wait to inquire
it of her.
When the carriage started off up town
she was SO nervous and excited that she
did not notice where it was taking her,
and when it drew up at the sidewalk
she stepped lightly out. Then for the
first time she discovered she was not near
her fathers house. On the other hand.
she was On street quite unfamiliar to
her. She was about to turn and inquire
of the driver as towhat this action meant
when the door of the house before which
she was standing opened and man ran
lightly down the steps. He was about
to speak to her when she recognized in
him her own husband. At the same in
slant he recognized her as his wife and
he drew back in evident embarraSS-
ment.
In his efforts to turn the tables of his
guilt upon her, he then and there ac-
cuSed her of visiting houses of lire
pUte and declared that he had had his
suspicious and that they were verified
by her presence in front of the house
where he had been watching for her ar
rival and which he informed her was
one of the best-known houses of assig-
nation in the Quaker City. Mrs. Nc
Kenna, it is said, was much taken aback
by the charge, and began to think that
it was some horrible plot of her hus-
bands to fasten charge of infidelity
upon her. At that moment, however,
the appearance of another carriage, and
the exit from it of woman who, APP.
parently not seeing Mrs. McKenna,
rushed up to Mr.. McKenna with the ex-
clamatiOn: 'YOu were just going,
weren' you? / know l am late, but my
train was delayed and they took me to
Seventeenth and Mt. Vernon by mis-
take" caused ray Of light to penetrate
the gloom of her mental darkness. In
a moment she saw it all. Her husband
had sent one of Peters carriages to the
Broad street station for another woman
whom he proposed to meet at this house,
and she had got into his carriage while
the woman had got into hers. In vain
did Mr.. McKenna try to make his wife
believe that he did not know the woman
and that he was sincere in his belief of
her Mrs. McKenna's) guilt.
She made her way at once to the
house of her father, whom she found
much improved, and she has since been
sheltered by his roof Private detect
ives were employed to keep their eye on
Mr.. McKenna, and it is said that indis-
putable proof of his guilt has been Sc
cured,